Originally Posted by Psimet2001

It snows where I live. Sometimes a lot. I have had snow blowers in the past. They were always hand me downs with all sorts of problems. I found I was spending more time getting them started, cleaned and moving the discharge chute than moving snow. With the last few years being really light snow year I just went back to shoveling by hand. These last few weeks have been filled with a lot of snow. I still was shoveling by hand. I started to notice that even in deep snow the guy across the street from me would be running his snow blower for a good 20 minutes before I would start shoveling and would still be running it another 10 minutes or so after I had finished shoveling.

As with all innovations or tools - they really only work best in certain situations.